Change Quotes
Time has been transformed, and we have changed it has advanced and set us in motion it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.Kahlil Gibran
There are still normal people around, they just changed the definition of normal.Michael Masukawa
We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.Orison Swett Marden
The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.From "Taxi".
Change your thoughts and you change your world.Norman Vincent Peale
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Henry David Thoreau
You must be the change you want to see in the world.Mahatma Gandhi
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends - Always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.Donald J. Adams
If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change.Michael Jackson, Man In The Mirro
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.Sidney Madwed
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.John Maxwell
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.Joel Barke
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, January 2004
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.Mark Twain
The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.Peter McWilliams, Life 101
What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.Earl of Roscommon
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there.Richard Feynman
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it.J. R. R. Tolkien
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, February 23, 1775
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.H. L. Hunt
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.Laurence Sterne
Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.Quintilian
The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.Robert Quillen
We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey. On dismissing 12, 000 striking air traffic controllers.Ronald Reagan
A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.Albert Einstein
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.Quintilian
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.Alfred North Whitehead
This one step - - Choosing a goal and sticking to it - - Changes everything.Scott Reed
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.James A. Forude
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.William Arthur Ward
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.Christina Baldwin
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles.Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
